From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I've got an imac 333 (revision 2.2 with the newworld rom, according to cpuinfo) with 320mb ram. When I try to boot with the boot.iso from disc one to do an nfs install it says it cant find any ethernet drivers. The ethernet is built onto this model of imac. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot an imac 333 with the boot.iso and try to do an nfs install 2. It doesn't find the nic 3. Additional info:
Do you know what kind of network chip is in the machine? Can you start a CD install and switch to tty2 and run lspci?
results of lspci from cd install on tty 2 00:00.0 Host bridge: Morotola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40) 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O 00:12.0 VGA compatable controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) 00:14.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) The exact same results are returned from YDL 4.0
YDL 4.0 system-config-network says the hardware is: eth0 (GMAC (Sun GEM))
Can you check tty 3 4 and 5 when it complains about no network device. I think this may be an issue on some hardware where when we probe, we don't find the device.
I checked the other ttys and couldn't see anything that I associated with being unable to load the ethernet drivers. On a whim I chose the select a driver option and tried the Apple BMAC driver which lit up, got an address from dhcp, and appeared able to mount the NFS. Unfortunately it then said "This directory does not appear to contain a fedora installation tree." I suspect this is a different bug and I'll log it as such. Looks like something just needs to plug together the devices in this machine and the Apple BMAC driver.
Actually this might be the ones that don't show up in pci until the module is loaded. I'll test on fish/g3 bmac tomorrow in Cambridge.
Created attachment 138944 [details] patch against kudzu 1.2.57.1 to enable bmac ethernet autodetection Provided to me by dwmw2 (David Woodhouse) of #fedora-ppc on freenode.
Comment on attachment 138944 [details] patch against kudzu 1.2.57.1 to enable bmac ethernet autodetection See this patch to fix the bmac driver, both attached here and in the following url. http://david.woodhou.se/kudzu-1.2.57.1-find-bmac.patch Also see the script I wrote which helps to automate the installation of PPC Fedora Core on another FC based host of that or any other architecture. This is especially useful when installing on unsupported OldWorld Macintosh. This is my first draft and it Works For Me(tm) so please let me know your thoughts. http://smuckola.org/projects/ppc_fc.sh
The patch looks for 'bmac' _instead_ of 'ethernet' in the device-tree. I suspect we should be looking for _either_, but I was being lazy.
Possibly we should look across all device_types properties for network.
Created attachment 139024 [details] search for both From a quick read, minifind just adds to the passed in list, so calling it twice in a row should be additive. Does this patch work for you?
This should be fixed for a while now.